Outline for a so-called cookbook.

Savarin – on hunts and eggs fondue
Plutarch – Cleopatra’s feasts with Antony - inimitable
Petronius – Trimalchio’s feast
What a pity that to eat ice cream is no sin!!!
That pope from the Pamphlets who croaked like a dog from those melons and wine
Lucrezia Borgia and Pope Alexander’s court and the huge feasts
Benvenuto Cellini – an anecdote about the pope: when the vomiting hour was near..
Bocaccio – description of a feast as something connecting people in the Decameron, also Madame Tessa and the roast capon and the lover

The philosophy of food – starting with getting full, ending with getting stuffed
Getting full – how?under what conditions?
Happy days – happy days are here again – and food.
Unhappy days – hours of sadness – mostly unhappy love and food
Remembering things in food: memories and connections in food that we don’t even like.
Aroma and music. Imagination is really omnipresent like the Lord
Imagination burned out of love – imagination burned out of indifference
Differences in perception of taste under differing circumstances(hard-boiled eggs on a school trip – and Trimalchio’s feast)
The seasons influence not just the possibilities, but also the reception of food
The seasons as irrefutable and permanent guides to everything – and their use
Guides to food – because sometimes it is, but usually isn’t a mere matter of getting full.
The difference between poorness and poverty and the difference between sufficiency and idiocy
The intoxicating side of appetite: the appetite to live and enjoy life